Temporary carrier and gravital feed for photographs.



P. V. W. WELSH;

R AND GRAVITAL FEED FOR PH APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, 1905.

OTOGRAPHS.

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TEMPORARY CARRIER AND GRAVITAL FEED FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

" Application filed. November 10, 1905. Serial No. 286,657.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PIERRE V. -W. 7mm, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Temporary Carrier and Gravital Feed for Photogra hs, of which the following is a full, clear, an exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for mani ulating photographs, parphotogra hs are carried through the develop ng and baths. v The invention is also intended for use in connection with photograph machines and more particrilarl so-called automatic ma chines in whicht e photographs are, by Ina.- chinery, carried through first a developer The usual 'ractice is 'to have the sensitized paper ca'refu y and permanentl secured'to a plate so that the two, that is t e aper and plate, constitute a so-- called photograph plate when they are united, but in practice it is desirable to carry the paper .merel through the baths and then after it is deve oped am; Lied secure it to a suitable plate. One reason for this that this arrangement obviates the necessity of notching or other- .wise in'urin the ermanent late and again,

the general .resu

nomical.

Theob'ect of my invention is to produce a cheap and simple temporary carrier to which is better and more ecothe paper can be attached andwhich will have sufiicient rigidity to hold the paper taut and which will especially hold the paper so that the plate feed will work on the carrier as well as on the usual rigid plate.

ll'ith these ends in view my invention consists of a temporary carrier and gravital feed for photograph apers or photographs as will be hereinafter cliearly described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a partof this specifica-' tion, in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a gravital plate feed and is intended to show the manner of using the carrier; Fig. 2, is a perspective view of the carrier; Fig. 3 is a detail of the slide forming a part of the feed.

In my prior U. S. Patent No. 490,180, there is shown and described a .feed device adapted to gravita-lly drop photograph plates one by one from a hopper intoa chute conducting the plates into line with a camera lens. The plates in this hopper are supported by slde. and end projections alternately movable at the opening of a station- 'plates are notched at op osite sides and at opposite ends so that t e plates dropped -sin ly upon alternate withdrawal of the side an end projections which was effected by a somewhat complicated and expensive quadrangular system of bevel gears and racks and imons extending around the open frame.

11 the present invention all this gearing is dispensed with thus reducing the cost of construction and simplifying the operation I of'dropping the plates or plate carriers.

The improved gravital feed device shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, accommodates a pile of plates or plate carriers 10 Within a hopper 11, wherein the plates are supported'by a slide 12, having an operating handle 12?, and also having a central opening into which laterally project pins 13 fastened one air in each side bar of the slide or frame. The piled plates or carriers 10 rest upon these plns 13 and the plates are allowed to fall gravitally one by one through the slide openlng into the hopper 14, passing them toward a camera lens, by simply giving the slide a direct lineal movement in one direction or the other to bring its pins 13 into line or register with the notches in the ends of the lowermost plate or carrier.

In Fig. 2,'I show the carrier which comprises a bent wire frame 20, which wire is shaped to produce the notches 16, and which also has bent-up clips or sockets 21, into which the pa er may be sprung and which will serve to old it.

Having thus fully described my inven- Letters Patent,

In a temporary carrier for photographs, a suitable hopper and supporting slide, carriers with which the slide coacts, said carriers consisting of rectangular wire frames having notches in the ends, the sides of the frames containing approximately C-shaped clip sockets into which the print may be sprung.

PIERRE V. 11'. WELSH.

Witnesses:

IVARREN B. HUTCHINSON, WM. H. CAMPIELD.

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